Tag: Nginx

  • Perils of Benchmarking

    I’ve been containerising my websites, with their servers to make deployment simple and robust, and to move to a CI/CD workflow. Since an install of a production web server is large, I would be running about ten of these containers, and there’s already a good server facing the net and doing the reverse-proxying (NGINX Proxy…

  • Containerised NGINX Proxy Manager & the 502 error

    If you’re used to running NGINX Proxy Manager in front of your web apps, and switch to running it in a container, you’re going to need to learn a little about Docker networks to get everything connected. If you just do your regular setup, and direct the proxy for an address to 127.0.0.1:<some port>, it…

  • NGINX Proxy Manager

    I’ve mentioned using NGINX as an interface between the internet and a service a while ago. This works by all incoming traffic coming to NGINX, and NGINX determining which service that traffic should go (from the NGINX config files) then acting as a middleman. This functionality is generally referred to as a ‘reverse proxy’. This…

  • Quick & Dirty auth with nginx & Node

    One of the basic requirements for any serious web app is a proper users/roles/authentication system – but if you’re just throwing up a utility of some kind on a public IP for testing, and you don’t want it to be abused, then this could be an option. There’s a few components: I briefly discussed web…

  • Beginning Node App Security

    Since I’m using Tailscale to painlessly manage all my networking on the homeserver here and my remotes, I’ve had the luxury of being a bit casual about the security of my internal apps and self hosted dev tools. I’m currently iterating on a web app that requires public access, and is therefore up on a…

  • Certbot – adding more virtual hosts

    I’ve got a domain that’s not currently used, so I’m going to set it up as a virtual host under NGINX. This server is already serving two domains set up with Certbot for SSL. Is it going to be possible to add another site and have Certbot manage the certificates for it after I’ve run…

  • Finding the host IP from inside a Docker container

    Having successfully set up and tested my node.js api handling app behind nginx on a development VM in the homelab, I decided to move it to my VPS so I could start using it for real. I had a bit of trouble finding the nginx.conf files on the VPS, until I remembered I was running…

  • nginx in Front of a node.js app

    NGINX is a great webserver and reverse proxy – as in it can hand off requests to other web-servers. That’s the situation I want to have set up on my VPS. I want NGINX to handle incoming requests – some of them will just be sorted out by returning static HTML, others (like the weather…

  • Updating SSL Certificates

    When I first installed my SSL certificates, I mentioned it’s a process I need to automate before they came up for expiry, but here we are ten days out, and I haven’t done that yet, but I have been keeping an eye on it though the excellent display and notifications set up in Uptime Kuma.…

  • Using Node.js to return a static file

    As mentioned in the previous post, stage one is just to return the same static text file, but from the Node server, rather than NGINX. That’s non-trivial to a rank beginner since I need to figure out 1) how to serve a static file from Node, and 2) how to configure NGINX to hand off…